On the Ropes
With Marc Smith as the voice of Hemingway.
Third of a four-part series on the life and works of Ernest Hemingway.
By the late 1930s books such as The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms had made Hemingway one of the most talked-about writers of his generation. With the publication of For Whom the Bell Tolls his sales and the world's interest in him accelerated at an almost frightening pace.
This programme examines his rise to star status as big-game hunter, war correspondent and friend of the famous. But the Hemingway of the Spanish
Civil War and the glamorous safaris in East Africa was a man fatally confused about his public image and his private mission as a writer. Hemingway grows further and further away from the innocence and hopefulness of the Paris years.
Film editor PAM BOSWORTH Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS
Produced and directed by ANNA BENSON GYLES
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